The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-08
Pith and Point.

lHE CdlllOpe DelOnBlnE 10 ledulng circus
has been totally destroyed in a western
railroad wreck. Let the good work go on
ACCORDING to an eminent English au-
thority goose lives fifty years. 1t then be-
comes boarding-house delicacy
phid North american.
A WESTERN deacon has been expelled
from his church because he declared his be-
lief that the world would last a million
years before the judgment day
AMERICAN soap is rapidly finding its way
into Mexico, much to the disgust of some of
the old inhabitants, who look upon soap as
the entering wedge for all evils.
The looseness of the English civil service
is shown by the recent discovery that pen
sion had been paid for thirty-five years after
the death of the person entitled to it.
The old theory that it took seven years
for the human body to undergo a complete
change has been succeeded by the one that
the revolution takes place every thirty days.
ONE of the banners which waved in honor
of the Queens recent visit to East London
bore the couplet, " Welcome, our Queen, so
seldom seen" There was both truth and
poetry in that phrase.
A REPORT comes from Dresden, Saxony,
of steam omnibus which is intended to
run regularly over the country roads. 1t
is managed by two men and carries forty
six passengers with considerable freight.
A DETROIT doctor calls attention to the
danger in large cities of infection from the
promiscuous use of the mouth-piece of a
public telephone and recommends that the
mouth-piece be cleansed with alcohol, car
bolic acid or vinegar.
THERE was recently unearthed at Jack
sonville, ILL.,, while excavations were being
made for the asylum for the insane, an
apple which is believed to have been buried
fourteen years The apple was in good con-
dition considering its age.
YES, my friends, the late departed was
gentleman in every sense of the word,
whose failings the world always pardoned.
To prove it l have only to say that he still
owes me seventeen francs and half, and
yet L am here FROM The French.
81 HAVE a bit of good news for you,
John, said fond young wife. "Yes?' re-
marked John, expectantly. eyes, you re-
member that two weeks ago dollhouse
grapes were quoted at SIS pound. Well, /
bought some to-day for S6!''- Exchange.
BY an extravagant and continuous use of
garlic these people, men and women get it
into their skins. From their skins it passes
into their clothes, so that they walk about
in small personal atmosphere of garlic
indescribably sickly and sickening
from Spain.
The great trouble with American journal
ism is that the men who know just how a
newspaper ought to be run are, unfortu-
driving stage, digging post-holes, herding
sheep or acting as deputy-sheriff.-BU
(TerdS) Hero.
THERE is a curious law in vogue in
Switzerland which compels every newly
married couple to plant trees shortly after
the marriage ceremony. The trees ordered
to be planted on wedding days are the pine
and weeping willow, but on natal days the
suggestive birch tree is selected
EATERS of oleomargarine will be glad to
learn that dogs are not worked up in its
manufacture. The authority for the state
ment is one who has watched the hopper
and seen the things that go into it, and he
swears there have been no dogs in the pro-
cession.-Mdrtha's Vineyard Herald.
A HEALTHYLooKING tramp, clothed in
rags and dirt, applied for aims at an up
town house. When asked why he didn't 90
to work and earn his living he replied, in
tone of disgust: "Work? Why, | am a
member OF Henry Georges Anti-poverty
Society, and we don't work. "-Norristo,on
Herald.
In some parts of the wine district of
France the church bells are tolled when
there is likely to be a frost severe enough to
hurt the vines. The inhabitants at once
hurry out of their houses and place uuan-
titles of tar between the rows of vines.
Then signal is given to light the tar, and
in few minutes a dense cloud of smoke
arises which completely protects the vines
from the frost.
WHEN President Hayes occupied the
White House Mrs. Hayes saw little girl
gazing about in the East Room one morning,
and went up to her with outstretched hands,
saying: "What is your name, little grip"
Dora" was the reply. "Well, Dora"
said Mrs: Hayes, am very glad to see
you" You'd be gladder," said the child
If you knew | was from Ohio" Mrs
Hayes enjoyed the joke as much as any one
AN old gentleman of this city, whose
name is omitted for good and sufficient rea-
sons, had very funny way of naming his
children. He gave them all name that
commenced with ID. The first child was
named Deborah; the second Diodama: the
third Della; the fourth, Diodate; the fifth
Don Alonzo; the sixth, David. He had fiji
teen children, but whether he exhausted
the DIS the deponent sayeth not.--NeW York
Letter.
AN Albany barber says that there is not
half the danger in being shaved from the
public cups in barber-shopas being brushed
with the public hair-brush. He says: "Half
OF the badness in the world is caused by
the indiscriminate use of brushes in barber
shops Badness is usually preceded by a
scaling of the head. This is a sort of dis
ease. When a barber brushes mans hair
whose scalp is diseased and uses the same
brush on healthy scalp, what can you ex-
pect? That is why so few women are bald.
AN Indiana farmer, who told his bows to
burn every bumble-bees' nest they found on
the farm, and who was complaining at the
failure of his clover-seed crop, was surprised
when Maurice Thompson, the naturalist
said: THAT is why your clover-seed fails
you. Bumble-bees make your clover-seed :"
III Is fact that strong nest of humble.
bees in a big clover field is worth $50 to the
owner, for these insects are the chief agents
IN fertilizing the blossoms, thereby insuring
heavy crop of seed. In Australia there
are no bumble-bees of our kind, and they
could not raise clover-seed there until thew
imported some.
EDWIN EMORY of East Baltimore had an
experience of the sagacity of the dog yester-
day. On his way down South Broadway a
small dog ran up TO him, acting in a strange
manner. The little fellow jumped on him
and licked his hands and occasionally
snapped and whined. Thinking of hydro
phobia, Mr.. Emory kicked the dog, which
then ran in front of him and, posing in a
begging position, began to beat the air with
ms 'front.' legs. Mr.. Emory insisted on hav-
ing nothing to do with the dog, but il re-
peated the act several times. Finally, Just
as ne was going to knock the persistent
mule beggar with sufficient vigor to last for
all tune, Mr.. Emory discovered a large pin
sucking in the foot of the dog, and with hui
name instinct he took him in his arms and
pulled 1t out. AS soon as relieved the dog
manifested his thanks by licking Mr.. EN-
ory's hands, and then disappeared as fast as
he could.-BdltinOre San.
AN Irishman was sent by his employer